802 CASTERS AND CHESTERS, 



— a rare or almost unparalleled case. But its precise site 

 is now unknown. However, Baeda's description clearly 

 points to some town in Nottinghamshire, situated on the 

 Trent ; for St. Paulinus of York baptized large numbers 

 of converts in that river at Tiowulfinga ceaster; and 

 the site may therefore be confidently identified with 

 Southwell, where St. Mary's Minster has always 

 traditionally claimed Paulinus as its founder. Bseda 

 also mentions a place called Tunna ceaster, so named 

 from an abbot Tunna, who exists merely for the sake 

 of a legend, and is clearly as unhistorical as his piratical 

 compeer Hrof — a wild guess of the eponymic sort with 

 which we are all so famihar in Greek literature. Simeon 

 of Durham speaks of an equally unknown Delvercester. 

 Syddena ceaster or Sidna cester — the earliest see of the 

 Lincolnshire diocese — has likewise dropped out of human 

 memory ; though Mr. Pearson suggests that it may be 

 identical with Ancaster — a notion which appears to me 

 extremely unlikely. Wude cester is no doubt Outchester, 

 and other doubtful instances might easily be recognised 

 by local antiquaries, though they may readily escape the 

 general archaeologist . In one case at least — that of OthonaB 

 in Essex — town, site, and name have all disappeared 

 together. Btcda calls it Ythan ceaster, and in his time 

 it was the seat of a monastery founded by St. Cedd ; 

 but the whole place has long since been swept away by 

 an inundation of the Blackwater. Anderida, which is 

 called Andredes-ceaster in the C/iron2cZe, becomes Pefenes- 

 ea, or Pevensey, before the date of the Norman Conquest. 

 It must not be supposed that the list given here is by any 

 means exhaustive of all the Casters and Chesters, past 



